January 2011 Archives

My favorite HTTP trace tool is Charles. I use it a lot to capture the underlying messages that fly between federation partners. Often, I'll save these traces and send them to colleagues for review. Rather than just sending the trace though, I sometimes include an ordered list of the transactions in the body of my emails. To create this list quickly, I export the trace from Charles in XML format, and I run the following XSLT stylesheet over it: